Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Locarno Pact (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925). Instead they had inclined to lend ear to Adolf Hitler's emotional claim that somehow or other the Locarno Pact had simply vanished with the making by France and Russia of an altogether unrelated Military Treaty of Mutual Assistance (TIME, March 9 et ante). Last week M. Flandin in his efforts to get British thinking machines in motion was greatly assisted by Belgian Premier Paul van Zeeland who, just before rushing to London to attend the League Council, spoke as follows to the Belgian Chamber...
John Crempa grinned with enormous pride last week while employes of a Public Service Corp. of New Jersey subsidiary testified in court at Elizabeth concerning the ingenious devices with which he had short-circuited or cut their high tension wires more than 20 times (TIME, Oct. 14, et ante). "He interrupted service to hospitals where operations were going on," cried an attorney. "He disrupted the signal service of a railroad, and he threw theatres and department stores and homes crowded with people into darkness...
...spends much time tending the delightful garden of his rural English home and knocking together small boats. Last week Major Douglas had had enough of the farce which has been going on in the Canadian province of Alberta in the name of his Social Credit (TIME, Sept. 2, et seq.). Taking pen in hand, the Major resigned his $10,000 per annum job as Alberta's adviser, canceled his proposed voyage to oversee the setting up in Alberta of Social Credit. This tended to leave stranded the rotund, frog-eyed school principal and radiorating lay preacher William ("Bible Bill...
...approach from the relativistic starting point, on the other hand, has already made progress (TIME, July 15, et seq.). But so far only one particle at a time can be dealt with. Perhaps an intuitive genius of the future will find a new basis for unification- a basis now lying in the abysm of the Unknown...
...docket of the French Court of Appeals came the case of U. S. Dancer Joan Warner, "Poetess of Naked Rhythm," who was found guilty of "publicly outraging modesty" by dancing in a respectable Paris restaurant in blue powder and a gossamer cache-sexe (TIME, July 29 et ante). The court reaffirmed Poetess Warner's fine of 50 francs ($3.30), lowered the restaurant owner's fine from 250 to 50 francs. Carefully the judges pointed out that the ruling does not prevent Miss Warner from practicing her art in theatres and music halls...